Bohemia Interactive has announced a €500,000 Make Arma Not War content creation contest for Arma 3. Cash prizes range from €20,000 to €200,000, and are spread across four different categories: Total Modification, Singleplayer Game Mode, Multiplayer Game Mode, and Addon.

CD Projekt RED has announced it will soon release the REDkit, a suite of tools that will set the modding community loose on the PC version of its acclaimed RPG, The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings. REDkit will enable the creation of non-linear adventures, new locations and more, according to the CDPR blog post on […]

Bethesda’s Todd Howard told G4 in the latest episode of X-Play he prefers mods over DLC and doesn’t understand why so many game companies don’t provide users the tools to create their own content nor why they don’t allow modding, period.

A rather interesting machinima video from YouTube user Tyrannicon has surfaced, and it features 500 Draugr, 500 Dwarven warriors, 200 skeletons and a dragon going at it in Skyrim. According to the video’s creator, it was developed using a combination of mods and console commands. We approve. Check it out below. Thanks, Gamefront.

GameFront is reporting on a new in-development mod for the PC that would bring cooperative and online play to Skyrim. The mod will reportedly allow players to quest together, trade items, and chat with other players worldwide. There’s no word yet on exactly how it works since the mod is still in production, however a […]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s black-and-gold colour scheme was a very deliberate design decision on the part of the team at Eidos Montreal – but fans have already modified it out of the PC version of the hit title.

Modders have started releasing fixes and tweaks to Dead Island on PC. The list is rather large, but among some of the fixed listed on the Steam forum are: change field of view, the ability to disable motion blur, weapons blur, bloom, dust, and desaturate, and many other modifications and the ability to vsync which […]

Bohemia Interactive has announced a €500,000 Make Arma Not War content creation contest for Arma 3. Cash prizes range from €20,000 to €200,000, and are spread across four different categories: Total Modification, Singleplayer Game Mode, Multiplayer Game Mode, and Addon.

CD Projekt RED has announced it will soon release the REDkit, a suite of tools that will set the modding community loose on the PC version of its acclaimed RPG, The Witcher 2: Assassin’s of Kings. REDkit will enable the creation of non-linear adventures, new locations and more, according to the CDPR blog post on […]

Bethesda’s Todd Howard told G4 in the latest episode of X-Play he prefers mods over DLC and doesn’t understand why so many game companies don’t provide users the tools to create their own content nor why they don’t allow modding, period.

A rather interesting machinima video from YouTube user Tyrannicon has surfaced, and it features 500 Draugr, 500 Dwarven warriors, 200 skeletons and a dragon going at it in Skyrim. According to the video’s creator, it was developed using a combination of mods and console commands. We approve. Check it out below. Thanks, Gamefront.

GameFront is reporting on a new in-development mod for the PC that would bring cooperative and online play to Skyrim. The mod will reportedly allow players to quest together, trade items, and chat with other players worldwide. There’s no word yet on exactly how it works since the mod is still in production, however a […]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s black-and-gold colour scheme was a very deliberate design decision on the part of the team at Eidos Montreal – but fans have already modified it out of the PC version of the hit title.

Modders have started releasing fixes and tweaks to Dead Island on PC. The list is rather large, but among some of the fixed listed on the Steam forum are: change field of view, the ability to disable motion blur, weapons blur, bloom, dust, and desaturate, and many other modifications and the ability to vsync which […]

While a lot of folks feel they’ve been kicked in the neck over this PSN business and have seen loads of reports on the situation, other stuff happened in the world of games as well. Below, you will find that other stuff.

A StarCraft fan group called CreationArtist25 have created a a pre-alpha version of what the group is calling World of StarCraft. It’s basically an MMO of StarCraft II which was built using the game’s mod tools.

The Black Mesa mod for Half-Life 2 will not make it’s projected 2009 release, according to a post on the mod’s official forums. “Unfortunately, to our great disappointment, Black Mesa will not make a 2009 release,” wrote the mod’s project lead. “Cynics may now rejoice, bets may be collected, and I think a mod team […]

When the Left 4 Dead 2 SDK’s finally released, it looks as if it will support custom models. According to L4DMods, users will have the ability to create survivors, common and special infected, weapons and edited weapon functionality unique to campaigns maps. Sounds rather neat, actually. Head on through the link to read up on […]

The modding community may not be quite as prolific as it once was, but maybe it just needs a little push. Or at least, that seems to be what the little voices in Valve’s head are saying, with the game developer-turned-storefront-owner’s plan to stock a portion of Steam’s unlimited virtual shelf space with a few […]

According to this OCRegister story, the National Science Foundation has given UC Irvine $100,000 to investigate why Americans go to greater lengths than the Chinese to mod WoW. About 5 million Chinese play the MMO, twice the number of American players, yet US subscribers produce far more modifications. “We are examining the many reasons for […]